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Filmmaker Interview with Pratibha Parmar

5:26Video duration: 5:26
Aired:
02/07/14
Rating: TV-14

Pratibha Parmar is the writer, director and producer of "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth." This first film biography about writer and activist Alice Walker tells Walker’s dramatic life story. Parmar talks about Walker's literary canon, the challenge of visual storytelling when the topic is literature, and what Parmar's goals were in making this film, artistically and as a record of Walker's life.